Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at dncnews@icloud.com.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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Life Jewish Teens Bring Change to Presidential Debate
Never before have three 16-year-old Jewish girls had so much impact on national American politics. With the announcement that the Presidential Debates Commission has named two men and, notably, two women to moderate the upcoming nationally-televised debates between the presidential and vice presidential candidates, three friends from Montclair, N.J. — who galvanized tens of thousands…
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Life Novelist Explores Love, Sorcery And The Talmud
With her new book, “Rav Hisda’s Daughter: Book 1, Apprentice,” Maggie Anton, author of the “Rashi’s Daughters” trilogy, unearths a different chapter of Jewish history, giving readers a peek into what life may have been like for a Jewish woman in 3rd century Babylonia. Weaving together research on the religious life and culture, the sociology…
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Life Where are Natan’s Women?
To anyone conscious of the paucity of women in positions of visibility and influence in the Jewish world, the lineup for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Natan fund struck a startling note. The Natan Fund, a relatively small but influential philanthropy organization, which was started by hedge fund managers in 2002, is having two…
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Life The Many Reasons Why I Am a Feminist Jew
This is the sixteenth entry in an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. I am a feminist Jew because I view being Jewish as a gift, as I do being a woman. Neither should suffer for the sake of the other. I am a feminist Jew because I believe that Torah is our divinely-inspired central literature,…
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Life Concubines Are Kosher Now
The chief judge of Jerusalem’s rabbinical court, Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, recently ruled that a man may take a concubine if his wife is unable or unwilling to bear children, and unwilling to divorce him. According to an article in Israeli newspaper Israel haYom, Abergel permitted the head of a major yeshiva to take a pilegesh,…
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Life Women Still in “Kitchen” of Talmudic Study
There will be lots of women at the big Siyum HaShas — which is the celebration of the completion of the daily study of the entire Talmud, which takes about 7½ years — on Wednesday evening. But they’ll be hidden behind a 25-foot high mechitzah, being installed at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey at a…
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Life A Champion for the Developmentally Disabled
It’s not every day that Tina Brown describes someone in her column in The Daily Beast and Newsweek as “an amazing woman.” But Brown, who has a 26-year-old son with Aspergers Syndrome, described Fredda Rosen just this way. Rosen is executive director of Job Path, a not-for-profit organization helping adults with developmental disabilities find jobs,…
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Life Yahoo’s New, and Pregnant, CEO
There is important news for working women: Marissa Mayer is leaving Google to become the new CEO of Yahoo, one of the biggest jobs in the tech industry. But that’s not all. Mayer just announced that she is seven months pregnant. This marks a radical change from the way things have been for pregnant women…
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